G’Stater at the new New Jersey Blog has some recent updates on two stories that we all equate with the Garden State now.
Golan Cipel (McGreevey’s ‘mistress’)
“Forrester was clearly the stronger of the two candidates on stage tonight. He won the debate on points, but, unfortunately, political debates aren’t won on points — they’re won on perceptions, and expectations. * * * The one memorable line of the night from Doug: “If he’s [Corzine] a tax cutter, then Golan Cipel is a homeland security adviser.”
and
Democrats Corruption Not Confined to Homeland Security Funds.
Towns in legislative districts represented by Trenton’s ruling Democratic Party got nearly 90 percent of $86 million in special state grants the past three years, even though officials proclaimed they had removed politics from the process, a Star-Ledger analysis has found
A review of 10 programs showed state officials repeatedly ignored a carefully crafted application process and instead distributed the money to satisy wishes of key Democratic lawmakers.
The grants helped towns pay for everything from Homeland Security equipment and tourism promotion, to library shelves and ramps for the disabled.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
It’s Joorsey. I live here, and I’m supposed to be suprised? In my own hometown, the Police chief’s been convicted of hiring a hit-man to rid himself of his ex-wife. He’s suing the County Prosecuters’ office for wrongful prosecution for unfairly targeting him, and demanding several million in compensation…not that he’s innocent and deserves a new trial.
Welcome to the Garden State.
I’m sorry to disappoint you, Ted, but The Garden State doesn’t hold a candle to Louisiana in the corruption department.
As Earl Long, Huey’s brother (who later had a most embarrassing public breakdown on the floor of the Louisiana Capitol in Baton Rouge before being carted away to the looney bin in Galveston) once uttered, “Don’t write what you can phone. Don’t phone what you can say. Don’t say what you can whisper. Don’t whisper what you can smile. Don’t smile what you can nod. Don’t nod what you can wink.”
The man was a certifiable lunatic and an inveterate crook, but I’ll give him his due: he knew how to do corruption right.
Jersey Corruption is the link to the Star Ledger article mentioned by G’ Stater. G’Stater is right in that the article was NOT on the Star Ledger’s website on Sunday (even though the article was in Sunday’s printed paper. The article showed up online on Monday. They are sometimes a little behind in updating their website.)
Read the whole thing if you really want to be depressed by how the Democrats are short-changing citizens who do not vote for them! I guess that’s because they are the ‘Party for the People’?
(keep in mind the Star Ledger online articles are free for only 2 weeks; then they go into the pay-for archives)
How in the world could anybody vote for Jon Corzine??? I mean, what’s up with that beard anyway? Dude looks like my hippie science teacher from high school. Or Rutherford B. Hayes. Just another freak in a suit.
How in the world could anybody vote for Jon Corzine???
Two words, Doug Forrester.
As with Bush v. Gore, and with Bush v. Kerry; you have to vote for one or the other. As a Republican, it’s embaressing that Forrester the “best” the Party Nabobs could field…and Schundler was no prize either.
Ted, you don’t sound like much of a “Republican” now, do you? I guess a “Republican” in the same vein as Christy Todd Whitman? And that’s not saying much, if anything. If you’re soooo unhappy with what the Garden State GOP is able to produce, I believe your local county Board of Elections has the necessary change-of-registration forms you so obviously need. If you’re fat, lazy, or bedridden, you can download one off the net.
FYI: Latest statewide poll on the NJ Gubernatorial race shows Corzine up by 18 points over Forrester — Newark Star-Ledger. 6 weeks from Election Day.